Continuing the string of strong and record FX trading volumes we've been seeing from leading retail and institutional eFX venues to start off 2018, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that January FX trading volumes came in at $26.3 billion ADV, making January 2018 FXSpotStream’s best month ever - and by a wide margin.…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Australian Retail FX broker Blueberry Markets has added to its business development team, recruiting Ben Clay, a senior executive from Royal Financial Trading’s Australian operation. He had also spent seven years as a senior sales trader at AxiTrader. Ben Clay joins Dean Hyde and Tim Mansell as the latest high…
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Institutional FX exchange provider LMAX Exchange Group has announced that it has completed an equity purchase of Paddy Power Betfair plc’s remaining stake in the business. The 31.35% stake (or 187,811 shares) was bought from Paddy Power Betfair for £21.945 million, valuing LMAX Exchange at £70 million. The buyback brings 95% of the company under the control…
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Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade today announced the appointment of Paul Alves as Senior Vice President, Global FX Business Development, with a focus on expanding the company’s buy-side trading solutions to asset managers. According to Alves, automation efficiency, execution flexibility and cost conciseness for both the asset manager and their bank partners, are…
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Venzee Technologies Inc.(CVE:VENZ) announced a partnership with BTL Group Ltd (CVE:BTL) that will bring together the Company's data transformation solution, Mesh, with BTL's blockchain development platform, Interbit™. Using artificial intelligence, Mesh is able to import, merge and transform data from existing systems before writing to blockchain networks, greatly simplifying the process of integrating blockchain networks…
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Clearstream, University of Luxembourg and consulting firm escent launch joint research project Post-trade services provider Clearstream, part of Deutsche Börse Group, just announced that it has entered a collaborative research partnership with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. Over the next four years, a joint research project…
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Russia-based integrator B2Broker announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with a partner in Malaysia aimed at bolstering its presence in the Asian region. The company has announced that Yogeshwaran Chandra Dash, its new Malaysian partner, a native of Kuala Lumpur with over 10 years experience in the financial market, is tasked with developing…
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Institutional cryptocurrency startup XTRADE.io has announced that Divisa Capital / Equiti Group founder Mushegh Tovmasyan has joined the company as a strategic advisor. XTRADE.io is a technology company founded by veteran Wall Street trading specialists. The company plans to introduce a new infrastructure that would allow banks, hedge funds, and large institutional traders to easily access…
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Girls Gone Forex teaches women how to "trade like a girl" and now they can"invest like a girl" too with the launch of the GGFX trading algorithm Girls Gone Forex has announced the Soft Launch of their 1st trading robot, GGFX ALGIRLRITHM. Girls Gone Forex, LLC (GGFX) is a financial education and technology company dedicated…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that it has added the functionality of using third-party Anti-DDoS services. The new Anti DDoS Proxy Server component, allows brokers to shift the burden of blocking unwanted connections, to a third-party vendor's server network. When using an Anti DDoS Proxy Server, all clients are connected to the provider's…
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